Posted on 07/18/2016 6:41:00 AM PDT by Utilizer
Canonical, the parent company of popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, has disclosed that its user web forums have suffered a major data breach.
Over the weekend, Canonical said that it had come across claims that a third party had a copy of the Ubuntu Forums database.
The company was able to verify that a breach had taken place, with a database containing details of two million Ubuntu Forums users being leaked.
No "active passwords" were copied over, although the attacker downloaded the random, hashed and salted strings generated by Ubuntu Single Sign On that is used for Forum logins.
Canonical shut down the Ubuntu Forums while it investigated the hack, which was achieved by exploiting unpatched ForumRunner add-on software for VBulletin using a simple structured query language injection attack (SQLi).
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Still on Win 7 but have Ubuntu ready to install because unless something changes with Win 10 acting more a data collecting malware, I’ll never use it.
I have Ubuntu Linux installed as a second OS as well.
The most official contact I have with anything Linux is periodic paypal donations.
Ubuntu is safe, it’s just the online forum that was hacked temporarily. It’s still listed as the third-most downloaded version of Linux today, Only coming in behind Debian itself and Mint Linux.
Cheers!
It’s the form that was hacked, not the members individual computers, sheesh.
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